"On November 13 the Oregon Symphony ended their Sounds Like Portland festival with a marquee performance with The Dandy Warhols. The rock band is among the most recognizable names in Portland's music scene and for one night they joined the Symphony for a hypnotic, head-bobbing performance. The Dandy Warhols are a musical symbol of Portland, albeit a very different one than The Decemberists, who performed with the Oregon Symphony the week prior."
"The band looked the part of a sixties psychedelic rock band: Mod-ish, peacock-like shirts, long untidy hair. Frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor embodied this look and sang in a breathy tenor. Furthering this sixties nostalgia, their name is a goofy pun on pop artist Andy Warhol. Featured on Brent DeBoer's bass drum was their banana logo, very similar to the one that adorned the first Velvet Underground album, adding a zipper to the peel that makes the Freudian symbolism even more obvious."
"In my previous article about The Decemberists' performance with the OSO, I compared their music to the instrumentally-ambitious folk-influenced indie rock bands of the 2000s such as Arcade Fire, The Mountain Goats and Neutral Milk Hotel. The Dandy Warhols are a bit different; they are a bit heavier, more psychedelic, more dreamy. Their artistic peers are Primal Scream, Flaming Lips, Spiritualized and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. (For more on the latter, check out the insane documentary , chronicling the friendship-turned-rivalry between the Dandys and BJM)."
On November 13 the Oregon Symphony closed the Sounds Like Portland festival with The Dandy Warhols, producing a hypnotic, head-bobbing collaboration. The Dandy Warhols embody post-hippy, Oregon Country Fair Portland, contrasted with The Decemberists' hipster Portland image. Projected visuals included a cheeky reinterpretation of Oregon's state flag with a VW Bus escaping a mik'd amp and a pot leaf replacing agricultural symbols. The band wore sixties-inspired, mod-ish attire; Courtney Taylor-Taylor sang in a breathy tenor. Their banana logo echoed The Velvet Underground with a zipper on the peel. Musically they skew heavier, more psychedelic and dreamy, aligned with Primal Scream and Flaming Lips.
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